Bench-scraper



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PHILO C. ATWOOD, OF WILLIMANTIC, CONNECTICUT.

BENCH-SCRAPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 465,825, dated December 29, 1891. Application filed April 18, 1891. Serial No. 389,516. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PHILO O. Arwoon, a citizen of the United States, residing at Willimantic,in the county of lVindham and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Bench-Scraper, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in scrapers.

The object of the present invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive tool adapted to be conveniently employed for scraping and cleaning benches and butchers choppingblocks and the like.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claim hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure I is a perspective view of a scraper embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal sectional view.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, 1 designates a bar, which is constructed of wood or any other suitable material and has one 4 end 2 rounded at 3 and forming a head, and

the rest of the bar is shaped into a handle 4. The head is provided with an inclined kerf 5, which has its mouth arranged at the inner end of the curved portion 3 and adapted for the reception of a blade 4, which is-adapted to scrape and clean the surface of a meatbench, chopping-block, or the like, and projects beyond the bar a suitable distance and to readily move over the same, and permits the operator to hold the blade as tightly against the surface to be cleaned as desired.

The blade is secured in the kerf 5 bya screw 6, arranged adjacent to the blade 4* and adapted to engage the same, and the blade may, if found necessary, be provided with a notch or series of notches to be engaged by the screw to adjust the blade as the latter becomes worn by use.

It will be seen that the device is simple and inexpensive in construction and adapted to be conveniently used.

What I claim is- A scraper comprising the bar 1, shaped in to a handle and having its end 2 forming a head and rounded at 3 to provide a bearing-surface, and having an inclined or slanting kerf arranged at the inner end of the curved portion, a blade arranged within the kerf, and a screw arranged to engage the face of theblade, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

rmLo c. ATWOOD.

Witnesses:

JNo. L. HUNTER, E. FRANK BUGLER. 

